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‘It’s a strange time to be a man’: in The Castle, Jon Ronson investigates the plight of unanchored men (opens the original)
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The ABC’s now-defunct current affairs show Q+A makes an early appearance in Jon Ronson’s The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unravelling Men. A guest in 2024, he reflects on the show as “a delightful hour’s television with everyone being convivial to one another, no matter their politics”. That is, until there was a question about men, which he responded to with: “It’s a strange time to be a man.” He describes the response of host Patricia Karvelas (“Is it? Why?”) as the “sharpest exchange” of
5 Bret Easton Ellis adaptations, ranked from worst to best (opens the original)
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Bret Easton Ellis’ books look like they should be perfect material for the screen. They’re filled with beautiful, amoral young things, designer clothes, pop music, lashings of drugs and casual sex, horrific violence and the sun-drenched landscape of California. His characters inhabit a world already saturated with images drawn from film and television. His fiction helped define the sensibility of the MTV generation, while cribbing liberally from it. Yet Ellis has proved surprisingly difficult to
Omar Musa’s Miles Franklin win rewards epic, ambitious Australian writing with a global scope (opens the original)
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Omar Musa has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fierceland, an energetic, formally adventurous novel that confirms his place as one of the most ambitious voices in contemporary Australian literature. The prize recognises a work that stretches the possibilities of the contemporary Australian novel, while remaining deeply engaged with questions of history, identity and the enduring legacies of empires. Fierceland combines the sweep of an epic with the formal playfulness of postmodern
Provocation, ruin and empire: your guide to the 2026 Miles Franklin shortlist (opens the original)
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Australian fiction has long been interested in the relationship between the local and the global – and the six books shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Award are no exception. They range across time and place, from Tasmania to Malaysian Borneo and the Middle East. And they engage with histories of empire, environmental ruin, migration, ageing, political activism and war. There is a striking willingness to experiment with form. Some authors borrow from poetry or genre fiction, while other
Them at 25: Jon Ronson’s adventures with extremists made him famous – and Alex Jones, too (opens the original)
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Jon Ronson’s book Them: Adventures with Extremists launched him to worldwide fame – and more dubiously, launched conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Though Jones has been deplatformed, his influence lingers: just this week, it was reported that Australia’s far-right One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts praised Jones in 2024 as “a beacon of hope around the world”. Researched and written in the years preceding September 11, and published in April 2001, Them – which Ronson described in a preface to its s
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